Abstracts with visiting Katya

We had a guest here last week, Katya returned for a visit after almost 4 years away.  As per our tradition, we held an abstract painting night, and boy, was it ever productive! We each finished 2-3 pieces by the end of the night, and the results were mostly impressive (I'm saying that because I'm not proud of a couple of my own pieces...).

 

Newcomer Lyndon surprised us all (and probably even himself) with his abstract painting skills (and/or his skills at reproducing tricks learned on YouTube).

Nicole and Lily came up with very interesting colour combinations and compositions:

Daniel finger-painted, and had us guessing about his subject matter until the end (it's a dragon; some of us thought of Smaug).

Curtis proved he has a knack for handling paint too!

I have plans for Curtis' painting of our Purple Van (aka Maroon Van, aka The Mystery Machine), which I hope to share in an upcoming post.

Finally, some close-ups of a few pieces we did using thin paint dripped on canvas and shaken ("fluid art", is it called? whatever it is, it's fun to play with!).

A Year Later...

Yikes, we haven't posted here in exactly a year!  We've met as a group a few times since (our Halloween get-together at Steph's place was probably the most memorable! as well as Jordan's farewell party in December), but weren't organized enough to take photos, so no records of any of it here.

Until now!  We met again last weekend, and this time I took some (not so clear) photos of work in progress.